Those Gold Coins Found Buried In Cans Are Now For Sale

This story may inspire you to go out and get some exercise, and take a metal detector with you.

Remember the California couple who found all those gold coins while they were out walking their dog?  The coins date from 1847 to 1894 and have been valued at $11 million! 

Several coins were auctioned at the Old San Francisco Mint Tuesday night and one of them, an 1874 $20 double eagle that is usually worth $4,250 ,sold for $15,000.

Don Kagin's firm is handling the sale,  he says most of the remaining 1,400 coins are now on sale on Amazon.com and Kagins.com.  So you could buy one!

The couple who found the coins does not want us to know who they are, or exactly where they live, but Kagin named the find "The Saddle Ridge Hoard". (maybe that is a hint)

We do know the couple is middle-aged, and discovered the coins in eight cans buried in the shadow of an old tree on their Northern California property.

They plan to keep a few of the coins themselves and use the money from the rest to pay off bills and donate to local charities.

According to Kagin, most of the coins were made at the San Francisco Mint.  So far nobody has come forward to claim them in the name of long dead ancestors.